VNabokov, PF discussion, general.

[Michael Joseph]

Frost is an obvious guess, but I keep seeing a resemblance to the young
Howard Nemerov--particularly since Nemerov sometimes described his
reputation as that of the second greatest N.E. poet after Robert Frost.
Michael

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> http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nabokov
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> Well, welcome back, Perry.  Talking about oneself in the third person may be
> a
> sign of Pirate Prentice sun-crazies, it's now 109 degrees in the Valley--, or
> may just be a stab at humor.
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> Not having yet confered with Vince on our hosting this section of  Pale Fire,
>  what
> chapters again?  (My files are ludicrous= nonexistent)
> just thought I'd throw this out.  And finally, something I can sink my teeth
> into,
> VN's butterflies that sting like bees.
>
> And, remembering from my first  reading of PF that I was sure that John Shade
> was loosely based on Robert Frost, who was the most famous rhyming poet of
> the
> 1950's, Could I get directions to a website that features his work, esp.
> later
> work?  I get a real clear sense by VN's tone he was holding his nose a little
> when
> considering the Puritan dreck that most Eastern poets were putting out, pre-
> Black Mountain and pre-plain speech stuff.
>
> but maybe I'm just prejudiced because I've been studying, no glorying in
> non-dreck
> poetry since I decided Pound was an interesting hick, stuck on beauty and
> with
> no political politesse;   Eliot an anti-Semite and stuck, like Lowell later,
> on his
> latent Catholicism;  and really most interesting writers of the modernist era
> were
> cummings, WCWilliams and Hart Crane, who died early.
>
> Frost died very late in a storied and finally celebrified career.
>
> Perry Sams,
> SIG:  whatever.
> whatever
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